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@adammote9347
Жыл бұрын
Yes I was wondering if you could do a video on who would win in a duel Voldemort or Nicholas Flimel
@Brightstarvids
Жыл бұрын
Dam dem dom
@Eddievanbeek
Жыл бұрын
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@EjayT06
Жыл бұрын
Please bring back the old intro :(
@fatboyRAY24
Жыл бұрын
Bro PLEASE tell me the music you used for the video, its amazing..
@lynmurray4331
Жыл бұрын
There was some banning of Harry Potter by some schools in some parts of Canada as well. One of our neighbours would not let her kids read the series when they were young, but they did get their hands on it later and made their Mom read it too. Her comment was that it wasn't at all like it had been portrayed at their church. Anyone that is going to ban books should be forced to read the books first!
@David-jf5gu
Жыл бұрын
@R MS how was the books potrayed by the Church?
@DavidGarcia-kw4sf
Жыл бұрын
In social psychology, there is a concept known as a preselection. Most people don't really think for themselves; they get their opinions from their peer group, most of whom are also not thinking for themselves. Those few who are independent thinkers usually don't care if others agree on something or not. They will judge the book or whatever it is, on its own merits.
@deniselauderbaugh8060
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like my SIL; she got all of her kids believing Harry Potter was evil. They are grown and two of them have children of their own. Pretty sure they will also tell their kids Harry Potter is evil.
@philiphoel4290
Жыл бұрын
Forcing people to actually read the books they want to ban is antithetical to their beliefs. They don't have to actually read the books to know without a doubt that they are evil, and promote satanic worship. Besides their preacher told them they are evil, therefore they are...case closed. They don't need to think about anything, because their preacher tells them what to think. I had a lady tell me that Harry Potter didn't support Christian principles, and values. I said loyalty, friendship, bravery, perseverance, and fighting for what is right, yeah those are HORRIBLE Christian values...she didn't like that, not even a little bit.
@Psion_Phoenix
Жыл бұрын
@@philiphoel4290 LOL. I mean the core theme of Harry Potter is Love. Something the Christian Religion heavily promotes (love thy neighbour, etc) xD
@drbowtie3435
Жыл бұрын
I grew up Christian and as a HUGE Harry Potter fan. My parents were told by many people (ministers included) that they should stop me from reading them. So often they had a stock response of “we trust our son to understand the difference between fiction and reality”
@MHShah17
Жыл бұрын
I'm muslim, both my sisters and me are Harry potter, now I'm getting to read Harry potter. It's not hard to realize that the books are Fiction, and pretty neutral, showing magic as an ability and otherwise acting like any good fiction book.
@azerdraco3146
Жыл бұрын
I remember some of the idiocy around banning Potter books. Reading one of these "reviews", which stated that the books were "pure evil", is actually what got me to start reading the first book. I've had many discussions with many individuals from groups that banned the books. What I have found is that almost every single one of them have no actual reason beyond "My [Insert Group Name Here] told me that it was bad, and I believed them without questioning anything."
@MysticalJessica
Жыл бұрын
With me it was the opposite! It had been years hearing others about the greatness of Harry Potter books and I didn't believe them because based on my experience when many people like smth it's no good! So after getting pestered from everyone I was like all right all right I'll give it a try and found out this was one of those rare cases everyone liked smth of value!
@anthonyfisher9413
Жыл бұрын
@Mystical Jessica actually most things most people like font suck you have to work hard to find a diamond 💎 in the ruff. But most good things are talked about and loved. To bride otherwise is self abuse. Treat yourself to the things everyone likes because they done told you it was good. No shame needed for not being the first. .... lol most pioneers died like most of the first Mars colonizers will. Live and love baby
@MrBmax95
Жыл бұрын
@@MysticalJessica sounds like you are a person that strives to be different to stand out. Weird activity
@highiqwarrior
Жыл бұрын
A book that is banned has to have some captivating storyline/ premise to begin with. The ban probably helped with marketing as well.
@BB-zp9ni
Жыл бұрын
Was the same in the 90's when music got banned from radio, they always ended up top of the charts
@noelleggett5368
Жыл бұрын
The major American marketing ploy was the title change: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The American publisher insisted on changing the title because of the view that “no American child would read a book with the word ‘philosopher’ in the title”. ‘Nuff said!
@Psion_Phoenix
Жыл бұрын
It’s true. Look at Hogwarts Legacy. People have been calling for a boycott on it, yet that’s just made even more people buy it. Some purely out of spite from being told what they can and can’t do by others on the internet.
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
@@noelleggett5368 Yeah but that was down to poor teaching (sadly quite common) and ignorance in the US. They just wouldn't know what a 'philosopher' was.
@TsukabuNosoratori2
Жыл бұрын
I lived through all of this, and was even told as a young teen in the 90's that I was going to hell for liking Harry Potter. I was in a Wallmart perusing the Harry Potter Merch shelves for something to spend my allowance on, some random little old lady walked by, saw what I was looking at so eagerly and straight up said to me "You know you're going to hell for liking that?" I just shrugged and said "So?" and she went on her way. My mom read the books with me because of the hooplah about it back then, then it became some fun Mother-daughter bonding times when she saw the claims were false. We grew up in a small town, and I was a sickly child. Harry Potter became one of those things I had to hide in my closet because being a nerd in my town was heavily frowned upon. Let alone liking Harry Potter. Harry Potter is generally harmless, and there's more to it than just "ERMAGERD, WITCH CRAFT!" The book series helped me through so many trying times in my life, and it's special to me. I say it's ok to like Harry Potter whatever people might say. It teaches about love, learning how to live with death in life, and over coming evil. I'll never forget when I first read about the lonely boy living in a cub-bard under the stairs, finding out he was a wizard and making friends and friends who were like family throughout his journey.
@deborahcox7784
Жыл бұрын
Good answer.
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
We had this sort of thinking about DnD back in the 80s. It started in the US because DnD had 'magic' and 'demons' and things that came from Hell, so it had to be evil. There was even an early Tom Hanks film (Mazes and Monsters, 1982) that centred around a similar game and in it one of the players starts murdering the others and that added to the DnD is evil momentum. This came over to the UK in the newspapers and some churches decided that the 'game' was 'unchristian' and caused problems for early clubs and players in some places, mine included.
@greedybeastie9828
Жыл бұрын
"A threat to national security" 😂 Wild assessment by Egypt 😂
@DiamondWoodStudios
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I’m getting heavy Dursley vibes from Egypt LOL
@lindabenny4454
Жыл бұрын
The people who ban these books never get it right. Ban something & far more people will read it or listen to it, it's human nature to want something that has been banned. I started reading HP when they first came out in 1997. When I had my son in 1999 I was 41 so he grew up with them & it was really great because it was something we always share. I still listen to the audio & reread the books & we often have quizzes between us.
@spud69g
Жыл бұрын
Go ahead and ban some of those books popping up in public schools now a days, I can bet they won't become popular all of a sudden.
@Jedda678
Жыл бұрын
My headmaster in private school deep in the rural south of Alabama saw me reading Half-Blood Prince at lunch one day and asked "That's a large book what are you reading?" and I said "Oh Harry Potter" and left it at that. He had to say "Well I'd read it to but I believe in God" to which I couldn't help but say "Shame religion gets in the way of a lot of fun doesn't it?" I got written up for it...worth it.
@RetiredSailor60
Жыл бұрын
I agree with you. Harry Potter is an adventure story, period. Meant to be fun...
@jimbeaux89
Жыл бұрын
My relationship with Jesus doesn’t keep me from having fun. I have an extremely fun life. I play video games, ride dirtbikes, play drums, read and watch Harry Potter, etc. Religion gets a bad rep, just like the Harry Potter books got a bad rep. Of course, it doesn’t help that a lot of religious groups are always on about banning things that they have no idea what they’re about. They blindly spout what they hear, without doing research for themselves. Jesus knows my heart, though. He knows that I know that Harry Potter is just a story. I have nothing to be afraid of from stories, because I know that he loves me unconditionally. These groups apparently doesn’t feel the same.
@789uio6y
Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeaux89 Jesus is a stupid person like you.
@dandereninja4750
Жыл бұрын
@@jimbeaux89 part of the problem is many religious leaders like to ban things that are fun because “it could lead to sin” or as a means of control.
@patriciaoconnor402
Жыл бұрын
I believe in God too. The HP books deliberately portray no religion, I think, so no one of a particular religion will feel left out.
@davidbroughall3782
Жыл бұрын
How ironic is it that the same people who wanted the books banned now defend JK Rowling, while those who defended the books now want her cancelled.
@fatkidgames4381
Жыл бұрын
Its more ironic that the people that demanded it banned are the same people that believe the biggest liar in America is a prophet....
@barbiquearea
Жыл бұрын
Especially religious folks seem to gravitate conservatively on the political spectrum so it's not surprising that they would side with JK after she has made her views on the Trans community known.
@davidbroughall3782
Жыл бұрын
@@barbiquearea I think the hypocrisy is equally shared.
@davidbroughall3782
Жыл бұрын
@@Amaranth3523 If you don't like the word "irony", then how about "hypocritical"? Both sides are selectively defending intellectual freedom.
@brandogg974
Жыл бұрын
Well said.
@coreyposthuma447
Жыл бұрын
My church and Christian School I attended never had a problem with the Harry Potter series we even had them in some of the class rooms as well. I'm now 30 and I have introduced Harry Potter to some of my Nephews and Nieces and they are hooked (there parents also grew up reading them as well.
@arget_aiedail
Жыл бұрын
My fourth grade teacher was fired for reading us the first chapter of Sorcerer's stone. They also banned pokemon as the were "pocket monsters". Christian school was fun.
@HarryPotterTheory
Жыл бұрын
What! No way, that’s crazy
@DementedXShenzi
Жыл бұрын
@@HarryPotterTheory happened at my Christian school too. It was like a literal witch hunt back then
@D_0_S
Жыл бұрын
Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and apparently they banned Marvel Comics from my christian school only to repeal it when they saw students were learning better from those sources than 95% of the teachers in math, history, and art. Go figure
@bobhanson1037
Жыл бұрын
Yeah that was my Christian mom. It was ridiculous and my dad just stopped trying. She later apologized and said she was just so scared about everything she didn't know what was ok. For me as a parent I always at least check out what my kids watch or read and see for myself not following the church(my church was against these)
@teamthoth
Жыл бұрын
I knew a minister's kid that was told hp and Pokemon were satanic
@guillermorodriguez3844
Жыл бұрын
At present I´m 71 years old, I bump into HP´s Books by chance, I'm fan of fantasy books, I´m to, a Catholic Christian, and never felt that it was a book related to contradict religion, I think those that opposed are a little out of context, they didn't understand what the plot was about, Either they were Christians, Muslims or other Religions. My grandson started reading them at age 10, and we had something new to talk about.
@nathanieliden9923
Жыл бұрын
In 2000 my elementary school class in Ohio almost read The Socerers Stone as a class book. A form was sent home and every parent had to sign off that it was ok for us to read. 1 girl's parents didn't want her to read it which meant the whole class couldn't
@bobhanson1037
Жыл бұрын
Oh I'd hate to be that girl. You know when a book is good when a whole class wants to read it and then that's the one book they can't.
@kentondickerson
Жыл бұрын
@@bobhanson1037 Especially when it's a 400 to 500 page book and elementary school kids want to read it.
@BigBossHuntelaar
Жыл бұрын
How mad is it though that the school sent a freaking form home to each parent asking permission to read a book. And then America is called the land of the free haha, laughable.
@artist172
Жыл бұрын
@@BigBossHuntelaar America has many freedoms... introducing OTHER PEOPLES Children to material they might find objectionable is NOT one of them. and thank the creator for that.
@BigBossHuntelaar
Жыл бұрын
@@artist172 if children were to only be introduced to things every parent supported it wouldn't be school. The idea is to learn new things and different point of views. If you knew what freedom was you'd agree with that. If children were only subjected to things all parents agree to, then the most conservative parent will be the determining factor and it would be indoctrination instead of a free school.
@carmentabone945
Жыл бұрын
At the time that the books of Harry Potter were on sale, my son was about 11 years. Up until then, he didn't like reading. That is, until I bought him the first book. He would not let it go out of his hands. And was always on the look out for the next one. Then he started reading other books. I read all Harry Potter about 3 times each. they are so describtive and intriguing. And I bless every penny that the author earned from them, if it wasn't for her, my son would not have understood the wealth you get from reading. Oh by the way, we are Christians and I find nothing wrong in the books. After all, you're not going to practice magic. Just enjoying a good read. Carmen from Malta EU.
@scottrawicz7613
Жыл бұрын
A priest I had lunch with when I worked at a hospital would say "It's a children's book get over it". My late wife had a co-worker who thought Harry Potter was blasphemy. She let her kids read the books anyway. My wife asked what did your children read before the series. She said nothing. What do they read now? She said everything that is why I let them read it. You won't find me reading it.
@andrewhead1840
Жыл бұрын
I am a devout Christian, who has grown up with Harry Potter as a child and have thoroughly enjoyed it, only seeing it as a wonderful wonderful story that helped me get into my love of fantasy genre and reading.
@JungleJuliaDP
Жыл бұрын
I actually have a funny (at least to me) story about this. It's long and detailed, so feel free to ignore my comment if you're not up for a read. My mother was a hardcore Seventh-Day Adventist who was ADAMANTLY against the Harry Potter series. However, she was also DETERMINED to get me into an Ivy League school. The many public schools I attended participated in the Accelerated Reading (AR) program: Students were required to read books--carried by the school library and marked as AR books with colored stickers placed on the binding--take quizzes on them. In order to "accelerate" to the next educational grade level, students were required to obtain a certain amount of AR points each school year. This took place (at least in the U.S. public schools I attended) from 6th-12th grade. AP students, naturally, had a higher requirement in order to advance into the following grade level as AP students. We'd gain AR points based on the scores we received on said quizzes and the color of the binding stickers would indicate the point range of the books (i.e. green=20-30, yellow=30-40, orange=40-50, etc.) Turns out, the Harry Potter novels started at yellow, and we're at lavender (60-70 points) by Deathly Hallows. Once my mom found *that* out, she was *ALL ABOUT* me reading HP. A single book was often worth *HALF* the required points for non-AP students, so they helped me get ahead easily. Idk, it's just always been funny to me. She abandoned her hardcore religious beliefs for the *possibility* of success SOOOOOO quickly. Lol Also (unrelated to religion), I was *SPECIFICALLY* banned from watching Chamber of Secrets around my Gma because her phobia of snakes is so intense that even one on screen is too much for her.
@metalheadrevolution2650
Жыл бұрын
My initial opinion it had something to do with the Satanic panic in during the 80s and 90s where they deemed anything relating to the fantasy genre deemed as heretical here in NZ did tbe same thing and I still have a tap of my mother forcing my older sister to burn her collection of books like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and several others
@paulbeharrell
Жыл бұрын
I went through that cr@p while growing up in the UK. My mother burned my records because of the garbage that Al Gore and his wife were spewing to anyone who would listen. 🤘🏻😎🎸
@789uio6y
Жыл бұрын
All religions are stupid af. God is a fake news.
@lunarrocks8216
Жыл бұрын
Would've been funny if she lit your mom on fire instead. Lol
@lunarrocks8216
Жыл бұрын
@@paulbeharrell Would've been funny if you lit the entire house on fire as revenge. Lol
@slipstreamxr3763
Жыл бұрын
Tolkien was Catholic, though and his books reflect this. He was also friends with C.S. Lewis who was also Christian and wrote the most well-known Christian fantasy series to this day So, I don't get why they are considered Unchristian.
@tarajoyce3598
Жыл бұрын
I heard rumblings but it never effected the area where my children grew up. They were the perfect age. Waiting as each book was written and released. Magic!!!
@laurendobinson5930
Жыл бұрын
The Harry Potter series, both books and films were one of my highlights of my childhood xx 😊
@lukasd6546
Жыл бұрын
Newt planned to send the Thunderbird, Fred, to Arizona. I guess J.K kept sending them books.
@CallemJayNZ
Жыл бұрын
I was so blessed to have been gifted four of the Harry Potter books as a child (The others hadn't come out by that point, but I bought them once they became available) I honestly don't think I would have ever developed such a deep love for reading if I hadn't received them. I'm eternally thankful to J.K Rowling for creating this world of fantasy ❤️
@MusketeerGweneth
Жыл бұрын
I too developed a love of reading from HP and as someone who struggled in that area, the storyline of the books captivated me so much that it helped me not only catch up but go beyond my "level" and at the time my school banned the books. They had those reading reports I was supposed to fill out and I chose to be extremely petty and filled numerous reports with nothing but Harry Potter, reading more than I was asked to. They tried to tell my mother the books were banned at school but my mom shot back that that was fine; however, the books were not banned at home. 🤣 It would not be the first time nor the last time my teachers would try to police the way my mother parented me, or her reminding them who in fact has all the power to pull me out and put me in a new school should they keep pushing her buttons trying to limit and hold me back on learning. She did end up putting me in a different school and apparently that school did get shut down due to many parents complaints about the treatment of kids on the spectrum like me.
@Blackadder75
Жыл бұрын
@@MusketeerGweneth your mum deserves a medal
@dio_Brando1888
Жыл бұрын
I remember these books getting banned well the first two from my school some Christians were pissed that kids were reading Harry Potter books they went as far as to threaten the school called my grandmother told her I was studying witchcraft and I was going to be possessed by demons and that she was going to hell for letting me read those books.
@Roma_eterna
Жыл бұрын
That’s the thing about Christians. They hate anything fun.
@LoveShaysloco
Жыл бұрын
I had a nabor who said I was studying witchcraft to. When I asked why? She said it's cause they make potions. To which I said do you get medication and when she said yes. I said isn't that a potion. When she said no I asked what's the difference. She said potions hurt people medication doesn't. When I mentioned what about skelegrow which fixes/regrows bones that's a medication but a potion Harry Potter. She got so mad. Even more so when I said if you tell some one in the middle ages of how you can see some ones insides without cutting them open. They would probably see that as witchcraft
@GlasiaVD23
Жыл бұрын
Then how is Math, Science and IT not considered witchcraft? It teaches PCs and the E word.
@Roma_eterna
Жыл бұрын
@@GlasiaVD23 they don’t now, but historically Christians have considered science witchcraft to some extent.
@lauraslade5308
Жыл бұрын
been 12 years since I first watched harry potter and I can say that I've never been possessed by demons nor practiced witchcraft.
@bobbyz9052
Жыл бұрын
I wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter as a child so my left wing friends would sneak me copies of the books. Now those friends wont let their kids read Harry Potter, so I'm sneaking them copies of the books. History rhyming and all that
@heavenstarkey9518
Жыл бұрын
I dont remember harry potter being banned
@Gloria-ro4vn
Жыл бұрын
Sporadic here and there. Ridiculous, uninformed religious fanatics who never even read the books. If they did, they'd realize there was NO worshiping Wicca or prompting paganism, just the opposite, even celebrated Christmas, emphasized, good over evil etc.
@mattwolf7698
Жыл бұрын
School libraries banned it like crazy.
@RJMiller73
Жыл бұрын
@@mattwolf7698No they didn’t.
@susan7775
Жыл бұрын
I was in my forties when Harry Potter first came about. I haven’t read them as many times as LOTR, but I love them as much. My introduction to magic was through the books of Edward Eager when I was in elementary school
@Blackadder75
Жыл бұрын
only in the bible belt , normal people wouldn;t ban it
@EricasTouch
Жыл бұрын
I was an adult so I was able to tell the difference when they came out. I bought them personally so I never had to go to a library to read them.
@denny-michael
Жыл бұрын
Interesting video. Im Christian and love HP
@kmrose
Жыл бұрын
Same here.
@Pulivari124
Жыл бұрын
Same
@sarahkwast1250
Жыл бұрын
I am a Christian who LOVES Harry Potter. I haven't read the comments, so I may just be repeating what was said, but I see witchcraft and magic in Harry Potter as two very different things. Witchcraft is a belief system or religion. Anyone can choose to become a witch, just as anyone can choose to become a Christian. Magic is a tool used in fiction. It is eather learned or a natural ability, whichever the author chooses. In Harry Potter the children go to school to learn how to use magic, which they are BORN with. Not everyone can use magic, as squibs may spend their entire life trying and failing to do so. The children are not taught a belief system, they are taught the difference between using magic to help and using magic to harm. They are not taught how to become witches and wizards, they are born witches and wizards. They are not taught to glorify magic, they are trained to use the magic that is part of them. We teach children not to hurt each other, physically or emotionally, because they are born with the ability to cause pain. In Harry Potter some children are born with magic. It is even more important to teach those children how to use that magic so they don't harm people magically. In Harry Potter the bad guys use magic to harm and gain power. The good guys use magic to defend and protect. It is simply a story about good and evil, right and wrong. I don't understand why religion was ever part of the conversation in the first place.
@maximillian875
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with the movies and started reading the books when I was 18.
@mugglescakesniffer3943
Жыл бұрын
The books were also attributed to the biggest jump in Child literacy in the 1990s. Kids that hated reading were reading the books and learning to read. I
@tyfriedman2458
Жыл бұрын
Every time you upload it makes my day bro
@billyt.7306
Жыл бұрын
As a kid I watched a few of the HP movies and played the games, but didn't end up actually reading the books until I was 16. I'm a Germanic Pagan, but I can say that Harry Potter didn't really influence me at all in terms of religion. Harry Potter DID make me have a great interest in British food though, and as a classically trained Chef, foodie, and huge HP fan I can say I'm very pleased with that influence lol British food to me is great 🙂
@joshualittle877
Жыл бұрын
If you like British food ( that is pretty much reviled the world over( remember the 2000 Brad Pit film Snatch? " Bad weather, worse food, Mary f***in Poppins England" you may have much greater issues than Harry Potter. Just saying but hey more power to you. I had those meat pies in Australia not sure if that counts. I ate quite a few simply because it was the quickest most avaiable thing. Yeh you can keep that stuff.
@saylalisalovemelalisalovem3334
Жыл бұрын
yea same Harry Potter did not influence me in any way regarding religion, I only liked it becuz of the plot and the characters
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
@@joshualittle877 Show us, you don't know much about British food, without saying you don't know much about British food. The 1940s British bad food stereotype brought back to the US by returning GIs, came from the UK being on strict rationing due to a war they had been fighting for years before the fully fed US soldiers turned up. People in this country had to make do with anything they had and it was rationed. So yes, back then British food was boring and plain but it was enough to nourish everyone. These days and for decades, the food in the UK is healthier and better tasting than almost anything you can get in the US. (and yes, I've been to the US more than once to try theirs).
@joshualittle877
Жыл бұрын
@@Thurgosh_OG BS. On the one hand what kind of food people like is pretty subjective but I am an Ulster Scott ( by desent) I lved in Europe( Germany, Italy and Norway) for 8 years and served in Afghanistan along side the Britrish Para's in Helmand. Even they hate their food. They infact hate it so much they would gladly fight one another to come visiti the US Special Operations Compound in Bagram( Camp Vance) because along with the Italians we had the best dinimg facility on the base. One of the best kept secrets of the Italian Military is they have some of the best food in Italy. I lived about 15 min outside venice from 2007-2010 and served with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. I lovec my job there but was not overly fond of Italy. They are not generally friendly to Americans, refuse to speak English even if they are fluent in it. While the food is great the problem is unlike Germany and the US that has quite eclectic tastes allowing you to find just about any kind of food you like, in Italy your hard pressed to find anything thats not Italian food. They have Bars which are Espresso Bars that also serve out of this world Baguette and Panini Sandwiches. In my opinion they are actually some of the best food in Italy. They also have Pizzaria's thats self explanitory, Trattoria which is what Americans world consider a normal sit down resteraunt then there are Restorantes which are the high end expensive fancy resteraunts. Here is the thing though with the exception of Bars the food at all three is relatively the same the only real difference is the ambiance and price and you might find a better bottle of whine at a restorante. Real Italian Pizza also sucks. It sucks so bad that in my three years there I had it only about 3 times. There was about 4 block from my house a Pizzaria called Pizza King. Its a California chain that makes giant 24" New York style pizza. I began eating their Pizza when I was stationed in San Diego and was overjoyed when I found one in Italy so I didnt have to eat Italian pizza. Again it was always a real long wait because the Italians liked it much better as well. So what kind of British food are you referring to? They do have really good baked goods and pasteries but thats true on most of Western Europe.
@deborahcox7784
Жыл бұрын
I can talk to my priest about anything except Harry Potter.
@shelbycoladonato9359
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with it read to me all the time. In fact, my parents took me to the theme park in Orlando twice before Covid. Oh, boy, was that ever a lot of fun!
@Huskytabby
Жыл бұрын
Video idea for you to do: What additional effects do spells have that are not seen in the movies? For instance, what else can the patronus charm do besides ward off dementors?
@sackettsnodgrass9260
Жыл бұрын
I must be very blessed because my experience reading and watching Harry Potter was amazing. My Christian parents took me to every movie premiere, bought all of the books for me as well as costumes and movies. I went to 2 different Christian academies, no one had a problem with Harry Potter. I live in TN, on the border between TN-GA which is the buckle of the Bible Belt. But I know there are some who have had negative experiences growing up.
@HomoEucharistica
Жыл бұрын
Religious position in that case does not hold water very well, because literally all characters in _The Lord of the Rings_ and _Silmarillion_ use magic (or at least handle magical items) as well, and magic is as natural in Middle-Earth as it is in "Harry Potter universe". We could say same about Narnia... Somehow, the writings of Tolkien and Lewis were never banned in certain religious groups, as far as I know.
@suborno9249
Жыл бұрын
Okay, so now I understand why I have never find any harry Potter books in my school library. (2000's)
@ultradragontamer
Жыл бұрын
I had a friend who lived next door at an apartment, growing up. His mother never let him even touch technology, and when I was talking to him about Harry Potter, he told me it sounded evil. I tried to explain how Harry was the good guy and Voldemort was basically the devil who keeps trying to tempt & kill Harry. He became more interested, but then he tried talking to his mother about it. She came over & yelled at my mother for trying to get me to corrupt her son. I never saw him again after that, and I never understood why for over a decade. It's a shame how some people can be so fanatical.
@dats3
Жыл бұрын
I'm not going to divulge my age suffice it to say I'm old enough to have twenty year old son. I'm also a Potterhead because of my son. When my son was 6 years old he and I discovered the Harry Potter movies, The Sorcerer's Stone movie (I'm in America, btw). Anyway, we loved the first movie and we kept watching them. Well, after the first movie I bought the book and read it to my little one every night. By the time we'd finished he began reading them on his own. We've both read the entire series a couple of times and watched all of the movies and for a while kept up with J.K.'s revelations on Pottermore. However, my mother was horrified that we were reading Harry Potter. My mother is a fundamentalist Christian and thought that the books and the movies would invite demonic spirit's to possess us, especially my son. Well, screw that. It's fiction. Magic isn't real. But no, she insisted that magic was real and of the devil. So, eventually I told her that I couldn't let my son read the Bible because of all the magic that Moses performed not to mention all of the Jesus magic. Don't get me started on Lott's daughters. Holy shit! Anyway, I love Harry Potter as does my son. I've read thousands of books in my life and the Harry Potter books (series) is in my top five favorite books or series. Lord of the Rings is number one then the Hobbit. Anyway, love your videos. Sorry for the long screed.
@D_0_S
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly the same as the experience for most of the PJO fandom. Many people from the earliest books were actually told it was "demonic possession" to read it and we usually got told by our parents that we better stop because of the minotaur and all the monsters in it coming for us. In the end, I believe it's the ideals that makes something truly Christian. Harry Potter showed a lot more Christian ideals than it did magical shenanigans. As did Percy Jackson as a series show the same ideals. Courage, honor, honesty, love. How are they not Christian when you have them in a series that displays them as such golden traits rather than perverting them?
@stevenplyler6306
Жыл бұрын
I was not allowed to have any associations with Harry Potter as a child but now I am a Adult and I first enjoyed Harry Potter in 2021 at my best friends Summer Camp that had Harry Potter theme and I have now become An Official Potter Head ! No sooner had I become A Harry Potter Fan than I had a developed an idea for my own Harry Potter style story titled Mary Arianna Smith The Girl Who Lived that takes place at Illvermorny in North America ! The story is basically about an American female version of Harry Potter who defeats a female version of Voldemort called The Dark Mistress Imortapernia and or Arabella Gertrude Rimes !
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
@@D_0_S What is PJO?
@matiasluukkanen7718
Жыл бұрын
2000: Cult like thinking makes people ban Harry Potter books. 2020: Cult like thinking makes people ban Harry Potter books. Look forward to 2040, when cult like thinking makes people ban Harry Potter books.
@chinolebron6233
Жыл бұрын
As far as I know, It wasn't banned where I'm from. However, I do remember certain religions giving the books a hard time. Although, these were the same people who demonized Pokémon.
@A_Bottle-Of_Orange_Crush
Жыл бұрын
I don't remember the Harry Potter books being banned here, but I certainly heard about it, same with Pokémon. This whole thing was a case of ignorant old people in power making VERY I'll informed assumptions.
@Case2_0
Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, magic was viewed as a gift from God until a random German mayor decided to change it because he wanted to kill people who opposed him. He wrote a pamphlet about how witches and warlocks must be burned and then accused anyone he disliked of using magic and had them executed. King James really liked that pamphlet and had the Bible modified to support it.
@seventhsoldier2502
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in a very strict Southern Baptist household. My father was a pastor. Harry Potter, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon were strictly forbidden. Edit: so on my 18th birthday I watched all 6 films (at the time) in the living room, watched a whole season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and bought a pack of Pokémon cards.
@deserabailey8500
Жыл бұрын
I grew up christian, but my grandmother LOVED harry potter, shes the one that got me into it! & Im so glad she did!!!
@deserabailey8500
Жыл бұрын
Later on when i realized JK was christian, it made me love her and the series more and made me laugh so hard at the silliness that parents wouldnt let kids read it.
@edenmoon8275
Жыл бұрын
There was a group of toy shops in England owned by a mormon that refused to stock Harry Potter toys. It stocked Star Wars and even halloween costumes, but not Harry Potter because, well, I guess they never read them.
@calebS.Buddy_Rich_Best_Soloist
Жыл бұрын
I mean I understand Christian schools banning them because of the witchcraft thing, but oh my gosh !! At the same time though. Witchcraft doesn't always relate to Satan, people just relay it on to Satan.
@raynitaylor1912
Жыл бұрын
I remember the days of Satanic Panic. Was there when the flames were high and children were beaten if caught with merch. Dark days they were. The burnings themselves actually lead me to Fahrenheit 451.
@timelordmaster1084
Жыл бұрын
Thankfully, Harry Potter was never banned from any schools where I live. I'm actually really surprised there hasn’t been a resurge in demand for banning the books, given what Rowling has recently said, as well as the controversies that the books are racist/homophobic/transphobic/sexist and condones slavery.
@VelaiciaCreator
Жыл бұрын
Those in positions to be able to ban the books all happen support the lies she spreads.
@D_0_S
Жыл бұрын
So, I was in a Christian private school and public school mostly. That ban that happened in Christian schools was apparently tied to the nature of "sacrilegious text" and the entirety of the time being spent funded by local churches who took up a very public anti-witchcraft agenda while most had (and still have) a very private fascination. This coming from someone who has been in foster care with a member of the foster family marrying a local big shot pastor who would take her to see the movies under cheap prices privately and have me babysit his step kid. The public school system didn't allow the 7th book to anyone under 5th grade as it had themes deemed too adult for them. These were labeled as "death, mature themes, witchcraft, slightly sexual nature of wording (still don't know about that report 🙄), and the usage of graphic events (that one I understand was because one person read as far as the Battle of Hogwarts). Edit: that last part could be taken apart by being buddies with a teacher who was willing to check it out for you, but they only gave you a week to read it. I was the kid in my elementary school who pulled it off.
@ShadowGirlyz
Жыл бұрын
The movies were gory as a child. And watching that desensitizes kids. I never grew up watching (First time watching or reading it when I was 25) and still have a hard time with the magic scenes and the almost demonic way it's portrayed.
@stevenplyler6306
Жыл бұрын
Now I myself like Harry Potter but there are things that I don’t like about Harry Potter though. One thing being the fight between Bellatrix and Molly in the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Movie, I felt to it be inappropriate !
@mugglescakesniffer3943
Жыл бұрын
I was a fundamentalist Christian at the time and did some research on witchcraft and wicca and paganism. Then I purchased the first book and read it. The book really had nothing to do with real witchcraft and was mostly high fantasy like the Chronicles of Narnia which were Christian. When people I chatted with all over the US and the world came at me about Harry potter I would ask them 1. do you know about paganism and wicca and 2. did you read the book. That shut them up right away.
@eugenelau3927
Жыл бұрын
I have done a review on a book that exposed Harry Potter, but i still love reading it as this is Rowling's masterpiece. The cast members have never really practiced magic offset!!
@Natrix925
Жыл бұрын
I was in elementary school from 99- 2005, and I remember seeing Harry Potter books in our school library. I got to read it after the first film was released. It's funny how high officials make judgment on things when they themselves have not pondered on it. When using magic is a "sin," but the people that they worship use magic. There's always a double standard.
@augusto____
Жыл бұрын
Deathly Hallows has biblical references, so the Harry Potter books are connected to religion in some form
@Thurgosh_OG
Жыл бұрын
The Graveyard scene? Most religions bury their dead, so nothing biblical there (and nothing in the christian bible says bury your dead.)
@augusto____
Жыл бұрын
@@Thurgosh_OG i invite you to watch the video i made called influences on HARRY POTTER, from my channel: Jedi Wizard, but if you want i just can answer to the religious topic
@Medicalstench
Жыл бұрын
Ok, this has been driving me crazy for seven movies now, and I know you're going to roll your eyes, but hear me out: Harry Potter should have carried a 1911. Here's why: Think about how quickly the entire WWWIII (Wizarding-World War III) would have ended if all of the good guys had simply armed up with good ol' American hot lead. Basilisk? Let's see how tough it is when you shoot it with a .470 Nitro Express. Worried about its Medusa-gaze? Wear night vision goggles. The image is light-amplified and re-transmitted to your eyes. You aren't looking at it--you're looking at a picture of it. Imagine how epic the first movie would be if Harry had put a breeching charge on the bathroom wall, flash-banged the hole, and then went in wearing NVGs and a Kevlar-weave stab-vest, carrying a SPAS-12. And have you noticed that only Europe seems to a problem with Deatheaters? Maybe it's because Americans have spent the last 200 years shooting deer, playing GTA: Vice City, and keeping an eye out for black helicopters over their compounds. Meanwhile, Brits have been cutting their steaks with spoons. Remember: gun-control means that Voldemort wins. God made wizards and God made muggles, but Samuel Colt made them equal. Now I know what you're going to say: "But a wizard could just disarm someone with a gun!" Yeah, well they can also disarm someone with a wand (as they do many times throughout the books/movies). But which is faster: saying a spell or pulling a trigger? Avada Kedavra, meet Avtomat Kalashnikova. Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don't think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldemort's wand may be 13.5 inches with a Phoenix-feather core, but Harry's would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let's see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound. I can see it now...Voldemort roaring with evil laughter and boasting to Harry that he can't be killed, since he is protected by seven Horcruxes, only to have Harry give a crooked grin, flick his cigarette butt away, and deliver what would easily be the best one-liner in the entire series: "Well then I guess it's a good thing my 1911 holds 7+1." And that is why Harry Potter should have carried a 1911.
@FerrariKing
Жыл бұрын
I know a few religious people that won't read or watch Harry Potter. In Jesus Camp the woman was preaching against Harry Potter but a couple of the kids read the books and watched the movies anyway. I learned about Marilyn Manson because of religious people.
@Brinta3
Жыл бұрын
And Manson turned out to be a r*p*st, so what’s your point?
@nathanielrasey
Жыл бұрын
Step one: Can't seem to get anyone to publish book Step two: After publishing, book gets banned across the globe for.......reasons. Step Three: Fantastic beasts movies flopping and ending before the story is done. Step Four: Video game based on franchise is getting crazy flack from trans because of years old tweets from the author. This franchise cannot catch a break.
@bird_obsession
Жыл бұрын
Harry Potter has been one of the most popular franchises in my American community since the beginning. I feel bad for other Americans who never had the option to experience the magical world for themselves.
@TheArchitectOfDreams
Жыл бұрын
Banned at my school. If you were caught with it, it was confiscated and thrown in the garbage.
@LyleFrancisDelp
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Rowling did keep them secular, but they still celebrated Christmas and also had an Easter holiday break. "God Rest Ye Merry Hippogriffs". Suits of armor bewitched to sing "O Come All Ye Faithful". Those are religious leaning carols.
@ajb7530
Жыл бұрын
The Harry Potter books are harmless. If you've never read the books but condemn them, then you're ignorant. Read the books before you judge them.
@DragonSkyNija
Жыл бұрын
I think most people who hated Harry Potter and wanted it to be banned, didn't read it at all even not the first few chapters, and just believed in what ever the religion/government/other people said about it.
@Luna_Lovegood_1981
Жыл бұрын
Harry Potter wasn't banned from where I live in the USA it one of the biggest selling story's in USA even today.
@adarshmohanty9074
Жыл бұрын
I don't think Harry potter was banned in india. You should do proper fact check. I have bought each HP book and Movie the week it got released. Everyone of my friends have too. Even our brilliant filmmakers tried to copy HP and produced the masterpiece named - " Hari Puttar"
@AnimeMe40
Жыл бұрын
I remember hearing about this, even then I was like “… doesn’t the Bible have a man nailed to a cross? How is that okay but this is evil?”.
@riildiilcomments891
Жыл бұрын
For me, the Harry Potter books are among the greatest works of fiction ever. They are not portraying magic as something unnatural, but rather something consistent and rationally explained. I've always seen its magic as something real with a reasonable, even scientific, explanation. And while there is 'black magic' as well, it's being contested by the good magic. It's just like any religion or even science. It can be used for both good and bad. Like Sirius Black says: "The world is'nt made up of good people and Death-Eaters, we all have both light and dark inside us. What matters is which path we choose to take. And that makes you who you are."
@wadeyhyena1657
Жыл бұрын
I think the main issue is that a lot of religious groups tend to view magic as the root of all evil, since it's considered taboo in a lot of cultures, where its depicted more unfavourably. Now, I'm not blaming religion as a whole, that would be unfair. But it does tend to dictate, at least for some kids, what books they can read (The Bible, The Torah, The Qumran) and what books they can't (Harry Potter), which kind of stinks, to be honest. Aside from that, I can imagine a couple of parents weren't too fond of the language in some books too, like the amount of times Ron says "Bloody Hell" or when Molly says "Bitch!" (As a brit myself, I find both of those swears to be tamed compared to other expletives.)
@sharky6404
Жыл бұрын
My father literally believed that Harry Potter taught you witchcraft, until my aunt chewed him out that it was only a story and that the author literally wrote the story on napkins dreaming of getting out of poverty. He literally will believe anything other Christians tell him, because he believes all Christians are inherently better and more honest than non-Christians. Apparently, he forgot that all sinners are accepted by Christ and that people in general commit sins all the time. The most common being lying and envy.
@nealmccorkle3681
Жыл бұрын
yeah it was crazy. Wasn't banned here but I just had no interest in it at the time. Funniest thing I ever read was an opinion piece pushed for "don't let your kids read Harry Potter" that tried to link it to both Wicca and The Church of Satan and succeeded in proving to everyone that the writer was completely ignorant as to what either really is or how they work.
@chiquitalove05
Жыл бұрын
i had when i was working at a big name book store this lady became really upset with me cause i was trying to convert her child to my demon ways when i suggested harry potter books to the kid they grabbed it read a few pages and loved it she came up to me red in the face demanding i explain why i suggested this book i told her its a great story line and has great themes she said i was promoting my demon ways and then she try to have all the harry potter products moved out of the children's selection my manger had to demand her to leave or we call the cops after that i decided to look up all the books in that have been unbanned in my department and made a huge display of all the popular unbanned books right as you enter the department with my mangers blessing there was a note explaining why it was banned for each book oh when she saw that she was screaming at me i told her well this way parents and kids will know the subject matter know why it was banned and understand why these book are great books for everyone to read yes they might have subject matter that some might not like but this way if parent doesn't want their child reading about something they can avoid these books and select one of the many books we have for their taste then i thanked her for her help
@knightshade6232
Жыл бұрын
It was also banned in my country the Philippines for promoting witch craft ... Philippines has a majority catholic population
@cristinabuffington9659
Жыл бұрын
I was fortunate enough to have parents who allowed me to read Harry Potter growing up because they wanted me to read
@victorrichardson3027
Жыл бұрын
Today in rural Tennessee, Walmart replaced all four HP titles on its shelf with four new gay romance novels!
@JCardo2502
Жыл бұрын
JK Rowling was hated before it was cool apparently
@barbiquearea
Жыл бұрын
Ironically the same peeps who lashed out at her books as promoting witchcraft and therefore Satan worship now have her back when she made her opinions about trans people known.
@cobracommander6522
Жыл бұрын
I am 30 now and grew up with Harry Potter loved then and still love it there is nothing wrong with Harry Potter. When I have kids I will let my kids enjoy Harry Potter as well. That is the kind of reasons I will not have anything to do with religion and politics ever. If I come close to any religion its paganism and the occult and not the stupid satanism ones ether there is a difference. I all so remember when some of the Christian community hated one of my favorite Disney movies back in 96 The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And the whole thing with Pokemon back in the 90's as well I loved Pokemon to.
@matteogrutman9489
Жыл бұрын
new challenge: try and find a good book that WASEN'T banned in the USA (Impossible)
@BigBossHuntelaar
Жыл бұрын
I'm once again surprised that people always tend to be even more stupid and stubborn then you had imagined they could be. How sad is it to ban a fictional book for children for these reasons.
@ItsBoltify
Жыл бұрын
It really doesn't make sense. If harry potter should be banned because it promotes witchcraft... then shouldn't like every action movie ever be banned because it promotes violence? Explain it for me.
@Misamiko
Жыл бұрын
Who ban harry potter was like Petunia, Envy.
@grec.
Жыл бұрын
And now cancel culture is after the author. This franchise will never be out of controversy.
@ankebosing1968
Жыл бұрын
That is not true, she is just criticiced for being shitty to trans people.
@KDBetter
Жыл бұрын
I was lucky that my school not only didn’t partake in the ban, but we read the first one as a class in the 4th grade. I fell in love immediately. And my local library carried all the books so I was locked in before the first movie came out. But I do remember the controversy. I have friends til this day from different cities who either couldn’t read it at school or at home or both. The main reason - religion. And the misconception of the magic in the book.
@patriciaoconnor402
Жыл бұрын
The same parents who wouldn't let their kids read Harry Potter let their kids play video games that are violent. It makes no sense. Fairy tales, Lord of the Rings, the Narnia books are just like Harry Potter , but parents think it's OK to read those.
@patrickwilkerson1728
Жыл бұрын
Another thing for it being possibly banned is that Dumbledore is gay, and that may make some extremists uncomfortable with that concept being brought to young readers.
@matthewbates9629
Жыл бұрын
Not entirely true I’m not homophonic but my oldest nephew is
@dubg7likemike
Жыл бұрын
Have a bonfire full of harrypotter books. Martians vs goblins, goons vs crooks.
@xXRaMsiisXx
Жыл бұрын
the ministry in america didnt want the no maj to know about magic
@noelleggett5368
Жыл бұрын
Americans ban Harry Potter, but pray to Santa Claus. Stunning idiocy!
@paranihiaanaru4414
Жыл бұрын
Harry didn't "figure out" that he was a wizard, he was informed that he was one. Hagrid, on demonstrating his magical power, took Harry back to civilisation after giving him some breakfast. Moreover, his parents too were magical and did not die in a car crash.
@HarryPotterTheory
Жыл бұрын
Not even remotely the focus of the video. Also, he still ‘figured out’ that he was a wizard, just not by himself. ‘Figure out’ is still perfectly acceptable here.
@akashghosh9363
Жыл бұрын
@@HarryPotterTheory without a doubt 👍
@jnywd8450
Жыл бұрын
Years ago, there was a thing with books "Banned in Boston". Those banned books sold very well.
@WNKS70
Жыл бұрын
My kids reading English book for the first time through HP.
@VincentWeasleyPotter
Жыл бұрын
What a fantastic and unbelievable story of the actual story Great video thanks 😘❤️❤️😉
@shaneduc
Жыл бұрын
Any book thats banned is a book that you should read once. To see why it was banned.
@sideephects
Жыл бұрын
I remember a girl in my school wasn't allowed to even hang around people who talked about harry potter. She said her parents said Harry was a real boy. lul
@normansmith9110
Жыл бұрын
Harry Potter is not and never has been banned in my community, not to my knowledge. I live in Provo, Utah.
@hierbich
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I don't think HP was banned in other countries in America except for the US.
@Karmaswrld
Жыл бұрын
Always wondered why Christians are against witches and wizards when Jesus was literally a wizard dude walked on water made food appear out of no where turned water into wine and not to mention coming back from the dead like bro magic much
@JoelEverettComposer
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for what I thought was a good presentation of the many sides surrounding the initial banning of Harry Potter. Another poster's comment about the Satanic Panic of the 1980s is also worth considering as I think that panic also had some residual effect as well when Harry Potter was first introduced.
@eranshachar9954
Жыл бұрын
That is so unfair it happened. Religious groups should calm down and realize this is a work of fiction and not anything against believers. I follow Judaism and I separate between the story and reality. If they were truly afraid of how it's going to effect kids they should have just limit the age in which you can read. I don't know if it was banned here in Israel or not, but I can tell you that I first knew the series via the films only. I wasn't a prior books fan it didn't matter to me. And then in my birthday of 2014 I was first exposed to the books got all 7 of them as a gift. When I first read the series I was like "I am not sure it's the same series. Without getting deep into differences I see that there are so many."
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